This movement will not do well in Texas. Most of its member will have to come from Georgia. It is a shock to spend a week in Texas where nobody is fat, and then get off the Delta jet at ATL airport where fat people seem to be everwhere you look.

One thing I like a out being a Marine is that they make no bones about shaming and kicking out fat people. And what we call fat is an old sensibility that most Americans would not even notice.

Such people are put in the fat body platoon. Everyone from the commanding officer and down will describe such people as disgusting and as moral failures. I'm fine with that, but you can imagine our reaction to obese people.

I'm surprised no one noticed the fact that the paragraph about "gainer blogs" has absolutely nothing to do with the rest of the review? There's nothing about gainer blogs or feederism in the show they're reviewing, just like the gainers aren't actually part of fat acceptance. But NYT and others like to conflate the two, because it's easier to look down on the somewhat disturbed gainers than on ordinary fat people who are sick of the insults, abuse, and discrimination.

It's like tarring civil rights movements with Eminem's antics, or feminist groups with the actions of militant drag queens.

Yeah, I have to say a gainer blog (which I've never heard of before), doesn't really sound anything like a "fat-pride" movement. That's just weird.

And I'm not sure what that has to do with that new show about fat camp, which from the previews (I haven't seen an episode yet) seems to be about people who simply are fat. And the mere fact that this gainer dude is TRYING to gain weight and having trouble tells you something about the other side's struggles, because they are NOT trying to gain weight and have gained it anyway.

Fat-pride is of course a mystery and a threat to so many people. I don't really want to put people down or suggest that they shouldn't have pride if they feel that way. That is for each person to decide for themselves. You would be arrested by the thought police if you attacked black pride or gay pride or whatever other kind of pride that they are pushing this week. They only two kinds of people who are supposed to sit down and shut up are old white guys and fatties.

Two short words. Fuck you.

I do know that many people have been devestated by the attitudes spouted by some of you in these comments. You know a person might not be fat because of choice or because they are lazy. They could be taking steriods for a medical condition or not able to lose the weight gained during pregancy or they might just naturally be a bigger weight than the BMI chart calls for in the view of the weight Nazi's who are so quick to tell you what to do with your life. Or they could have a lack of self control that leads to a weight gain. There are a lot of different reasons why someone is fat.

The one true thing that I know from reading the comments here is that haters hate. Enjoy your tofu and your six hours on the threadmill. Me. I am having a couple of beers and a meatball hero.